CVE-2011-2990

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Summary

CVECVE-2011-2990
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2011-08-18 18:55:01 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionThe implementation of Content Security Policy (CSP) violation reports in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 5, SeaMonkey 2.x before 2.3, and possibly other products does not remove proxy-authorization credentials from the listed request headers, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading a report, related to incorrect host resolution that occurs with certain redirects.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-255 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
None
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mozilla Firefox 4.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta1 All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta10 All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta11 All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta12 All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta2 All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta3 All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta4 All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta5 All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta6 All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta7 All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta8 All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta9 All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 4.0.1 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 5.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.0 alpha All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.0 beta All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.0.1 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.0.2 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.0.3 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.0.4 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.0.5 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.0.6 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.0.7 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.0.8 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.0.9 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1 alpha All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1 beta All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.1 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.10 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.11 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.12 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.13 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.14 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.15 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.16 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.17 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.18 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.19 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.2 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.3 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.4 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.5 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.6 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.7 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.8 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.9 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.5.0.10 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.5.0.8 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.5.0.9 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 2.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 2.0 alpha_1 All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 2.0 alpha_2 All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 2.0 alpha_3 All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 2.0 beta_1 All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 2.0 beta_2 All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 2.0 rc1 All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 2.0 rc2 All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 2.0.1 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 2.0.10 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 2.0.11 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 2.0.2 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 2.0.3 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 2.0.4 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 2.0.5 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 2.0.6 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 2.0.7 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 2.0.8 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 2.0.9 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 2.1 alpha1 All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 2.1 alpha2 All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 2.1 alpha3 All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
MFSA 2011-29: Security issues addressed in Firefox 6 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
679588 – Intermittent browser_select_update.js or browser_select_confirm.js or browser_select_selection.js | Test timed out followed by | Found a after previous test timed out af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org
664983 – (CVE-2011-2990) Content Security Policy, violation reports, leak web proxy credentials af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org
MFSA 2011-33: Security issues addressed in SeaMonkey 2.3 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mozilla.org
[security-announce] SUSE Security Announcement: Mozilla Firefox (SUSE-SA af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
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